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G ..JE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY. JUNE 27, 1C21. a! INDKPENDENT NEWSPAPER C 8. JACkiKJA .;..., .-.i'ubluher I Be calm. be eonf ident, be cheerful and do onto oner, a rxi wrmkl hare tbem do unto you. I STlbiuhed erery week day end Sunday norning at TM Journal buiKUnc, uroeaway ua lm- mil nrw, 1'orUand, Oregon. Jh,mered at the polotfic at VorU&ud, Oregon, (or traasmissioa Uiroush the mails aa second era-" mm r. TtUlO'HU.VtS Mam 7171, Automatic 60-61. All departments reached by then number. JSA'llONAI, - A1VK111N( KKfKKtiilN t A- , ; TIVE Benjamin & Kentne Co., Brunswick ', building, .22 .Fifth inntw. New York; 00 Htimi rmiwiine, umofs. IVUtKSinS, Baranger Co., Examiner baikUng, San Fran- : cco; jtcjs insurance ouiiuing, uce ancnn . . ii .tu : i JI c ul. Villi oilfcUON JULKNAL, reserrss the right to rTFiini-wiiiffi?rrrgr punning, ptmn. - reject advertising copy which it deems oo ' jeetionable. - It aJao' win not print any copy ' that in any wa simulates reedinc matter or ; that cannot readily be recognised aa edrer- tmng. i : tJLBSCBIFTKHI RATES -By Carrier, City and Country DAILY AND SUNDAY One week. $ ,1a I On month. .... t ."5 rAn.Y 1 'SUNDAY One week. .,...$ .10 1 One week ( .05 One month.... .. .4 BY MAIL, ALL BATES PAYABLE TS ADYANCK One year.. .....8.00 Six months..... 4.25 Three months., .12.25 One month...,. .75 ; DAILY .' (Without Sunday) One year. ..... $6.00 us months.. , , 8.25 Three months... 1.75 One month . .64. j. WEEKLY let Wednesday) One year. ..... $1.00 Six months. .... .50 SUNDAY Onl? One year. . . . . . 93.00 his months..... 1.75 Three months. . . 1.00 i WEEKLY AJfD SUNDAY One year...... fS. 50 . j These' rates apply only la the West .1 Rate, to Eastern points furnifihed on applica tion. Make remittances by Money Order, Express Order or Draft. If your postoffieo is not a Money Order office, 1 or 2 -cent stamps will be accepted. - Make all remittances payable to The Jnarnal, Portland, Oreenn. It is scarcely credible to what degree dis cernment msy be dassled by the mist of pride, sad wisdom infatuated by the intoxi- cation of flattery; tor how low renins may descend by successive gradations of serrility, and how swiftly it msy fall down the preci- ' pies of falsehood. Ir. , Samuel Johnson. ROBBING ASTORIA THE parity of rates between As toria and Puget Sound will be destroyed by the railroads if they submit to the attempt of the Wash ington board of public works to nul lify the findings of. the Interstate commerce commission In the Colum - bia rate ' case. . .. T - TKa m1s 'ertirina A atftHa sa-f Tl a 1 rates with Puget Sound ports went into effect several years ago. It was accepted by the railroads, rate schedules conforming to the order were put Into effect, and traffic has moved oh that basis, up to the present. But on intrastate traffic the ad vance of rates , to Puget Sound is postponed for 90 days by the Wash ington board of public works so far as Puget Sound is concerned, while the advanced rates will be applied to Astoria,; completely upsetting the parity established by order of the interstate commerce commission sev eral years ago. Can the Tailroads at the) behest of the Washington board deliberately disregard the or der of "the interstate commission es tablishing Astoria's parity with Pu-jet- Sound ? Will they be foolish enough to recognize a state order ts superseding ii federal order which has been in effect and under which traffic has moved for years? Will the roads, knowing that the courts, as they have often and Invariably done, will hold that they must obey the Wder of the federal commission, deliberately disregard that order? t The railroads can have no illu sions as to the course they should pursue. They understand the issues and know the law. They know what the courts will do by whatHhe courts have done. Their manifest course is to disregard the action of the Wash ington "board, put the new rates into effect In conformity with the find ings of the interstate commission, and let .the Washington revolution ists go to the courts with their Bol shevistic enterprise. . They were honeyed words that Puget Sound visitors murmured into the ears of listening Astorians re cently. There were kisses and' hugs by the guests for the hosts. But the guests of that occasion have slipped a stiletto under the fifth rib of their hosts of that occasion by making a move that if it should succeed, would rob those hosts of their parity of rates. Puget Sound was a friend of the Astorians only so long as she emi1a na rhstm. , Has Vancouver thought herself part of the state of Washington? If so, is she not disillusioned by the latest : action i of 5 the Washington board of public works in the rate case? WHEN, WHERE AND HOW? A SET of parking restrictions has been drawn up by the council manic committee to be applied on downtown Portland .streets. ..They are reported to include 30 miriute parking privileges on certain thoroughfares between certain other thoroughfares, 15-minute privileges on certain streets between certain other streets, and an absolute restric tion on certain thoroughfares be- tween certain other thoroughfares. Two hours are allowed on other streets and no restrictions are placed on parking on still others. Undoubtedly the regulations have been drawn to relieve congestion in the crowded downtown streets. Un doubtedly, the problem has been In telligently studied and the conclu sions, drawn In' fairness to all con cerned." Unquestionably the proposed regulations will f result in an im provement over present conditions. ; But with so many different regu lations on so many different streets the layman will ?f eel . constrained to ask if the entire! police department is to be diverted to the job of enforcing- the regulations, if the cit;- is go ing bankrupt to; purchase signs, or if the automobile driver is to be compelled to carry a revised edition of We bstera . dictionary to know when and where o park and how? The plan will probably work out satisfactorily. But at first glance the man who is; blessed with only average, intelligence will be skeptical. The expense account of the Mor ris Brothers ; receivership suggests the story of a man sued for the re turn of a horse that had been stplen. "Did you win?" a friend asked. "Oh, yes, said the litigant. "Well, then, where's the horse?" The disgusted citizen replied, "The lawyer took It for his fee." . j IT MUST BE THE THIN3 IT HAS come to be & popular prac tice of those opposing measures proposed or enacted for the benefit of the people of this country to brand them as "socialistic." ; When the government in time of war was compelled to take over the railroads to insure transportation of badly needed war supplies, oppo nents of that course cried aloud that it was "socialism" seizing the govern ment. ' i When the federal trade commis sion was created' and its member ship installed to secure and provide the government and public with In formation relative to i Big Business another wall went up that the coun try was tending toward "socialism." -' When it was first suggested that the government take some means of Insuring the coal consumers, through regulatory enactments, of coal at a fair price, : the "socialism" bugaboo was again thrust j forward. When congress moved to Tegulate the big packers even our own Sena tor Stanfield cried wolf "socialism." And recently when congress fixed the minimum wages of girls em ployed In hospitals, cafes and clubs in the District of Columbia at J 16. 50 a week, opponents of the measure resorted to the j old battle cry "socialism." Perhaps the people of this country are mistaken as to what socialism Is and means. But if It means what the profit-seekers - at i any - price say it means a fair price for coal, for meat and for other necessaries of life.l fair treatment for the pubfic from Big Business, and justice to the girr!Torkers socialism must be an excellent innovation. , Just now the Oregon outdoors, is most beautiful' and impressive and there isn't any gasoline shortage this year to keep one within . the city limits. i IN TWELVE TEARS OREGON ranks next to Indiana In having , the largest number of dairy herds 'found , by test free from tuberculosis. i Clatsop county Is the largest area in the United States free from bovine tuberculosis. : r- : These statements are made on the authority of the state veterinarian. Dr. W? H. Lytle. J They are taken from an address which he made- in Astoria a few evenings ago. Does the H lawman, understand quickly and fully the significance of this information? ! A dozen years ago it war frankly confessed that one of every 10 dairy animals In the state of Oregon was Infected with bovine i tuberculosis. It was at the time that a dairy and food commissioner long ago, for the protection of Oregon's children, retired from office said that five gallons of tuberculous milk if fed to pigs would kill them, but if fed to children would fatten them. ! It was at the time that specialists reported lases - of j children Infected with tuberculosis through; the milk supply and that j the little 'white hearse was sure to follow the wagons that delivered milkf from dirty dairies and diseased cows. : '"TiV-- It was at the time that The Jour nal took up the pure milk crusade, which has since been described as the most effective sustained news paper campaign for public health ever undertaken in this country. The statement of Dr. Lytle is a chronicling of victory. The disease free herds are not a result of chance or accident. In the; back ground is a long,, persistent, devoted, effort, which, as It ; bears such re sults, is also saving life and making Oregon a better, and safer state In which 'to live. :- . 5 ' Pleading poverty, the railroads are placing publicity on the desks of United States senators opposing the remission of tolls oh coastwise ship ping through the Panama canaL The carriers raise no question of national honor under treaty obligations. They are simply afraid of losing the business.- They apparently overlook the fact that, their own hlgh rates con demn fruit to rot and food to spoil and that a; cheapening of the Pan ama canal route is rapidly becoming essential to the prosperity ' of the West, ? The day Is approaching when even the British will recognize that the United States has every right of honor and economy to send its ves sels toll-free through tha canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and back -.again. .. "....- CHANGE THE BACKGROUND Ma ELBERT H. GARY is a . most unusual man. ' He makes some unusual speeches. Mr. Gary is president of the United States Steel corporation. In his mills men work 12 hours a day. Most of them .are imported from Europe. Many pt them' are given, starvation wages.! Several families are often forced! by poverty ; to lire In the same house. ; A commission which Investigated Mr. Gary's mills reported that living , and working conditions imposed on employes were far below the average, and described them as horrible. ; But, undaunted, Mr. Gary told the students of Syracuse university that the majority of ' employers or man agers of business . were far more solicitous for the welfare of workmen and do more to promote their com fort1 and - happiness than outsiders ever have done or are disposed to do. He also said it has been demon strated to be profitable to the em ployer to treat workmen fairly and this would insure them full justice. He further declared that the door of opportunity is open to both capital and labor. : . ;. ' l If the opportunity afforded work ers in his own mills is the oppor tunity alluded I to in his address, If the welfare of the workers in his Own mills Is " the same welfare of which he speaks, and if the full justice given workers In his 'mills is the same full justice of his oratory, Mr. Gary's Ideas of opportunity, wel fare and justice are far different from, those of the workers and the people of the , United States. Mr, Gary's words would be far more im pressive if they were set in a back ground of opportunity, welfare and justice in the United - States i Steel mills. . - ' " ' I With slides of rock and avalanches of snow and ice. Mount Adams is furnishing entertainment that can be most safely viewed at long range. ASTOUNDING TESTIMONY (TT WAS the only way you could . 1 could get them to do anything for you? testified a tubercular vic tim of the World war before a sen ate committee Friday In explaining why he had been compelled to pay out more than $400 in tips to attend antsjta various hospitals to which he had been "sent for treatment. 4 ilt seerna unthinka"ble that' the tip ping system has invaded government hospitals. Of all places on earth where gratuities should not be neces sary to secure service, it Is a hos pital. If tipping has crawled its slimy way among the siekand help less, the time has certainlv'come for an aati-tipping campaign. '; If the miserable system has really invaded hospitals, may it not be ex pected to next hover over the grave yard and the mourners be called upon to put their coin into waiting hands in order to get the casket lowered? ;; Nor are the tip takers mainly re sponsible. The pittance -wage paid by some huge corporations, for ex ample, drives employes to beggary in order to live. ! Then there are the idle rich -who by lavish expenditure seek special service for themselves and Incite flunkydom to beggary. - And finally, patient, tolerant, easy going Americans submit good hu moredly to a system that they know undermines the pride and destroys the self respect of thousands upon thousands of their countrymen who happen to be servers Instead of sovereigns. The $400 of his savings paid to hospital attendants byxa"tubercular victim of the World war because "it is the only way you tsould get them to do anything for you," is a thun derous protest against the whole miserable system. - s The industrv or th" er ..: - wwaBfju aa that takes he public into its confi dence and strives for honest service, a square deal and true publicity is rarely placed on the defensive. SUNSHINE AMID GLOOM DOWN at the foot of Twenty-second' street, Portland, there is a lot of sunshine that streams out on the business gloom that overshadows the world. , Two hundred and fifty men there are engaged in fashioning a million dollars worth of new construction. A part of the " busy -force is con structing the huge new home of the Willamette Iron & Steel company, and the other is erecting four big buildings to house the plant and operations of the Portland Vegetable Oil company. The former Is an old established Institution, but the Vege table Oil company is"a new Portland project. : j.- ; The latter concern Is building a plant that will cost $450,000. It will be completed October 1, and begin operation immediately thereafter. The entire output of the plant has already been contracted. The com pany has a water1 frontage of 280 feet and a landward' depth of 880. In some of the buildings installa tion of machinery will begin August 15. - Copra will begin to be received and stored away In the four big bins early in September. . yThe eins have a combined storage capacity of S000 tons.' ' " . It will require three ships a month with' a capacity each of 1000 tons to keep . the plant supplied with raw material from the Orient. .These vessels .will be sailing schooners, and, on the outbound trip, will be able to carry away l,5r0, 000 feet of Oregon lumber. to the Orient. Of late, of seven ships going out of Portland fully loaded, the equiva lent of about six have come back in ballast or light. The new industry will serve to give inbound cargo to many vessels that have been wont to return empty. ; Here is example of the kind of Industry , that can do most to for ward the maritime and industrial accomplishments of Portland. The lack of inbound cargo has been a handicap to profitable ocean service. The vegetable oil people, with their plant and business, will be an object lesson to Portlanders of one ' field in which they , can greatly advance the growth and prosperity ' of their city and port. THOSE FEVERISH PREPARATIONS Secretary Weeks' Utterance on the , Attitude of Unnamed but Bellicose Powers Evokes Protest From Most Editor, Thou Kb He Is . Not Without Support in What Critics Call Saber RatUing. -Daily Editorial Dijesf (Consolidated Frees Association) The majority of the editorial writers flncK little to, enthuse over in the recent speech of Secretary of War Weeks In which he mentioned the "feverish prep parations" for war which were going on in one fit the nations with which the United States might "come in contact. Not only Is the verity f this statement questioned, but it is declared that his further remarks concerning the "folly" for America "to disarm" are criticised as being "beside the point." Sincere advocates of peace, Mr. Weeks' critics point out, are not asking America to disarm first, or even eventually, but are simply demanding a discussion of a limit of armaments. 1 Among the minor ity comment, however, there is emphatic praise of the secretary's speech. e When the secretary said that "pru dence would not permit disarmament while others hold weapons in their hands." he made a statement that was "quite true, but wholly misleading." says the Syracuse Post Standard (Rep.), as "it is not proposed that the United States disarm at all." It has merely been sug? Rested that we call a conference for the purpose of trying to stop increasing "the load on backs already bending.? Since the whole matter is a question of "simultaneous disarmament," the Knoxville Sentinel (Ind. Dem.) is con strained to ask: "Why will the highest officers of ! the government, to whom the people have entrusted their dearest interests, safety ' and welfare, talk such tr-nsparent nonsense?" - Indeed, most of the graduates of New York university "who listened to his ad dress could have told the secretary that his reasoning was archaic," declares the Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem), and the policy he advocated had been "rejected In principle Vf the president. It, goes on : 'No one wants una country to disarm alone, or before other nations do o- What the sane people of the world want is for this country to take the lead in inducing the other nations to stop their 'feverish preparations, by agreeing to stop our own. Those na tions with whom we may come la con tact are merely doing what Secretary Weeks advises us to do namely, use the peace period to get ready for the next war." . e .. e . Since nobody has proposed that we disarm and, as the Ithaca Journal News (Ind.) says. Secretary Weeks "knows this well," his- remarks sound like the "saber rattler" uttering "the old stuff of the militarists." "Let him address himself." it concludes, "to the problem of reduced expenditures and lower taxes instead of injecting a fake and mislead ing issue." Mr. Weeks expressed "sym pathy" with effort to bring about dis armament 'butters no parsnips," , re marks -'the Memphis Commercial Ap peal (Dem.), . which feels : that since "somebody" must start, why is it that "Mr. Harding doesn't make a move I" e e -e The assertion of the secretary that has met .with the most unfavorable com ment la the one concerning "feverish preparations" which he declares are go ing on "among those with whom we might possibly come In contact." Such words, says the New York Mail (Ind.), are "not to be lightly spoken by the nation's war minister; nor should they be left standing alone as a generaliza tion. If uttered at all, they should be accompanied by a list of the nations en gaged in feverish military preparations." By the process of elimination, the Mall arrives at the conclusion that Mr. Weeks is raising the "Japanese buga boo," which is "the only basis left to the militarists on which to Justify their arguments for continued burdensome war expenditures." An "aggressive pol icy of peace" is what the people of the country are demanding,, the .Mail be lieves, "and it is time for our govern ment to show itself responsive in deeds and not merely words." , j Since the secretary's inference is ob vious, the Charleston News and Courier (Dem.) feels that in all probability Japan will be forced to take Official no tice of it, and : "As for the people of this country, they must conclude either that : Japan is preparing feverishly to make war on the United States or that the secretary of : war in an effort to check the American disarmament move ment has committed a serious indiscre tion. In either case, we are likely to hear a great deal more al&ut Secretary Weeks' speech and it would not be sur prising -if it became the subject of In ternational conversations." e '' : Since public sentiment is what it la, the Springfield Republican (Ind.) feels that "UtUe is to be gained" in such statements as the secretary has made. "To say that nations with which Amer ica might come in conflict are making 'feverish military preparations begs the question." says the Republican, which asks: "What nations are feverishly preparing against as? The secretary would prefer not to answer. Yet, if such nations exist, are they not - moved to prepare because they fear that our prep arations are aimed at them?" . 1 This "vicious cycle," the' Chattanooga News (Dem.) declares, forces "Great Britain and Japan to build warships be cause we do, and us because they do. But they "have expressed a willingness to consider a mutual reduction pro gram," while we "are silent and don't want to be urged." We are, it con cludes, "for peace In spots!" 1 However, it would be unfair to over look ' the emphatic support which Mr. Weeks has received, although it is not distributed through as many newspapers as the criticism. Mr. Hearst's New York American (Ind.) calls it "plain, common sense" to sound a warning against naval preparation which would mean that we would lose "the next great war" which "wlll . be waged . on the Pacific. The Washington Post (lnd. also looks upon the speech as the "embodiment of cold common sensed and his statement con cerning disarmament "unanswerable." Further. , the Post believes that ."his views assuredly coincide with - those of the vast majority of his fellow citisens." The San Antonio Express (IneL Dem.) laments that despite the sound warning congress is ready to act in defiance of it in the " name of economy. "It is not economy,", it says, "to cut down the in surance policy and repudiate the fire department when flames are raging in the next block. The wind may change at any moment and nothing but unavail ing regrets be the portion of the reck less or the Indifferent." A similar attitude is taken by the Memphis News Scimitar Ind.. which believes jthat "while naval preparation is expensive and oppressive, this coun try is not prepared to take the pauper's oath and abandon its last recourse to the righteous adjustment of questions that might arise and with which we might be concerned. In conclusion, the following quotation from the ; Anaconda Standard (Dem.) might be selected as typical of those who are not looking for an immediate return of the peace dove ; "Universal disarmament, irrefutable as are the ar guments In its favor, seems to be ap proaching at a rate of speed no greater Letters From the People Communications seat to The Journal for publication in this department should be written on only one side of the paper; should not exceed SOO words in lencth, snd must be aimed by the writer, wooes mail address in iuu anust accom pany the contribution. 1 NOT THE PHONOGRAPH Thomas A. Edison Writes The Journal, Correcting a Too Sweeping Statement. West- Orange, N. J., June 20. To the Editor of The Journal I have before me a clipping from your issue of June 8, which covers an article entitled "Growth of a New Industry." " From the third paragraph of this article I quote as follows: - . "It .is not generally known that " an earlier inventor , blazed the trail for Edison, He was Leon Scott, who in 18SS constructed the first-talking ma chine. Equipped with a tinfoil record, incapable of being reproduced more than a few times, the instrument was played with for a year or so and presently forgotten." You are quite mistaken in making the statement that Leon Scott made a phonograph. ; The device that he made was called a phonautograph. The name is fully descriptive of Scott's de vice, which provided for the tracing, on smoked glass, of the curves made by sound waves. This device of Scott's would not record or reproduce speech or other sounds. Consequently he never produced a tinfoil phonograph. The first tinfoil phonographs were made at my factory in 1877 and 1878, and distributed all over the world. Thomas A. Edison. PENOLOGICAL REFORM. Suggestions, for Police and Penitentiary Organization. - Junction City, Kan., June 20. To 'the Editor of The Journal America has a golden opportunity to establish police and penitentiary departments that will not be controlled by unscrupulous polit ical bosses and whose official members will be prohibited from engaging in poli tics. Commissioned ' promotion in both Institutions should be awarded to rank and file, not to political panderers and favorites. - Educational and professional qualifications should be determined by civil service texaminers. Patrolmen and assistant wardens who valorously distin guish themselves should be generously rewarded, even if educationally deficient. The beautifully , trained army and navy legion of honor could furnish excellent material, possessing muscular develop ment and intellectuality. , Prisoners escaping from county Jails and state penitentiaries should be shack led and these irons periodically exam ined for file marks or hacksaw abra sions. Policemen, like surgeons... must put 4heir feelings in their pockets. Humani tarian soft soap fails to protect an of ficef&andling refractory and muscular prisoners. The Toledo, Ohio, constabu lary were most unjustly disciplined' by Mayor Jones when he disarmed them of their maces. - An : officer without his mace is as helpless as a doctor without his stethescope or a violinist without his bow. Neither can give the public heart felt, professional co-operation. Police and warders should undergo monthly revolver and mace practice, to insure reasonable efficiency. Most bona fide crooks are crack shots. All county - jails should be provided with machine guns, which could be ma nipulated by deputies in emergencies. Motorcycle patrolmen should receive a percentage of fines inflicted for auto mobile transgressions. :r. ; Bankers award their clerks a bonus for drumming up deposits. All metropolitan police departments should enlist racial official representa tives, they understanding their racial peculiarities better than outsiders. The detective branch should be recruit ed from the intelligent uniform depart ment. i. Edward Johnson. A PROTEST - . Ex-Service Man Refuses Victory Medal and Arraigns Capitalism, Astoria, June 28. T the Editor of The Journal In The Journal of Maf 12, under the heading "He Fought for Amer ica," "you try in vain to convince us ex service men that we fought for. any body else than the rich man and for his private goods and barns, which he at will can pull down and Instead build greater or more autocratic or oppressive ones against .labor, thus disfranchised and disinherited. Tou ask in part, "But what would the other system do? What would It be? How would it be organized, and what would be Its processes? How would it be administered?" - Well, the law of God commands men to take no mors than they give, neither in money "nor In goods. That spells the unconditional abolition of private owner ship of alf industries and in its stead the substitution of a cooperative system on equal termsw v That in turn ; leaves no choice for man to vote and do as he pleases, for he must vote snd do only for the cooperative system that God commands if man wants to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, on earth and hereafter. In short, true democracy is to conform strictly to the commands of Ood. All else is social chaos or com petitive parasitism against labor. The former we were deceitfully made to fight for, but the latter is what we really have now. : Many of us industrial ex service men were well aware of what we could expect of this chaotic private system of Industry. We will not submit to be further disgraced with capitalism's so-called victory medals for it is gross blasphemy in view of the general starva tion wages and forced unemployment and misery; now prevailing all over-the capitalist-owned world. : B. Abendroth, . THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT Eugene, June 22 To the Editor of the Journal It seems the Oregon i an Is in quiring (editorial of June 17) as fol lows: "Shall the Republican party ad mit that the Fifteenth admendment is a dead letter, and the great experiment of suffrage for negroes Is a failure?" Perhaps it is timely that such Inquiry were made, at least from a party stand point, and perhaps as a matter of intel ligence or common sense but let that pass. They say a donkey never learns anything, and conversely that the ele phant Is the wisest of all animals (per haps too wise). "A word to the wise is COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE What's a Httle Anglo-Jap pact more or less to a golf bug? Many thoroughly painted and pow dered, women are absolutely colorless. . - , - It is reliably reported that the length of a beard does not Indicate the breadth of wisdoms , . e e -' The school board insists upon its pe riodic Junket, but would be quite grieved if the voters should Junk it. Moonshine madness -used to be ' at tributed to youthful romance, but upon modern influences its inspiration is al coholic. : i. : e . e e . . j - See by the Sunday paper that the "corridors of time" still are among us. Thought maybe the Huns had ruined 'em in the war. - -; e e These stories about flocks of grass hoppers so thick that they hide the sky are like the story of the millennium we won't believe it till we see It. . e e What with a baseball game, a great track meet, a hunt club carnival and an international golf match, Saturday was a very sporty day in Portland. ' "B11W Haywood Is again In error when he thinks that from the vantage point of Berlin -he can make any head way in his tirade against American cap- ', . '- e " - . ' 1 ' . .'. Our own Dr. W. B. Hinson, abroad In the land, has coined a new phrase "hellish stupidity." we read. We know several persons to whose actions we can apply it. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Fresh': from his asparagus farm, George A. Dorris of Springfield is in Portland. Dorris was one of the Oregon pioneers in the asparagus Industry and is as enthusiastic over it as when be began it years ago. . In this era of falling prices his returns this year aver aged up well with the past few years. A great portion of his crop went to Seattle. Another hobby of bis is the raising of - filberts, which he has pioneered. "They make fun of the city agriculturist," he says, "but I . have noticed that it Is the city , farmer who makes progress. He is always ready to experiment- The beauty about krowing filberts is thai they pick - theroiMilves and are not perishable. You don't have to spray for bugs and very l'.Ul? pruning is necessary. .You don't have to uy on the place every day during the grow ing season."'. .. ... . A motor party from La Grande is made up of Mr. and Mrs. E. C Herzinger and their three daughters. The read from La Grande is reported fairly good, and excellent from Pendleton to Portland.' e . e R. B. Jones has returned . from a motor trip to Los Angeles and7 back. A. L. Demarls of Milton is registered at the Imperial. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN - By Fred fAn iMilm f The, Journal are here invited bv sir. I.ockle to so tonrjii down tha Colum bia to the sea and back again. And be not only in rites but incites, as he graphically notes the scenes through which the trsTeler is borne. Last week I went to and 'from Astoria by boat. If it were in my power I would say to every tourist who comes' to Port land. "Don't leave Oregon without malt ing the trip: by boat on , the Columbia." One of -the-worth while trips that can be made from Portland Is the trip by steamer to Astoria; Captain C. C Tur ner is an old time 'acquaintance of mine, so he invited ma to visit him in the pilot house. I had not been there long before he invited me to take the wheel. There is -a fascination about seeing a boat respond to the whirling spokes that is Irresistible. .1 can readily understand why Mark Twain was never happier than when in the pilot house of a fast boat on the Mississippi. I have made the trip by boat down the Mississippi ; I have made the trip up the Hudson to see the far-famed Palisades; I have taken the trip on the St. Lawrence to see the Thousand Islands and not one of these trips but is well worth while. But right here in Portland there are thousands of people who have never made a trip on the Co lumbia a trip that is a panorama of ever changing beauty and grandeur. The Palisades along the - lower river, the wonderful and ever changing views of Mount St. Helens and Mount Hood, the lights and shadows on the river, the lush green fields, the evergreen-clad foothills sloping, down to. the' water's edge, the life on the river, the passing and meet ing o dredges, towboats, tugs and mo torboats, make the trip one of Infinite variety. Then, too, the passing glimpses of the river communities when the boat takes on . or puts .off passengers keeps one interested. The boat itself, with its freedom to the passengers, its polished engines, its glowing, oil-fed boilers, the pilot - house with the highly polished wheel, the compass and the rest of the; equipment make the trip a delight. ' ; - Captain Turner told me the lore of the river, as well as the history of many of the old-time mariners. At one of the small river towns we took on Captain J. L. Reeder, a weatherworn, grizzled old river man, who Joined us in the pilot house. . . "No, I am not a native of Oregon he said. "I was born August 31, 1851, at White River, Ind. My folks came across ! the plains in a prairie- schooner in 1853. We left St. Louis April 12 and landed! on Sauvies island September 17, and we have been there ever since. Sauvies j island, or Wapato island, as the Indians : called it, is 18' miles long and averages 4 miles wide. Father bought out J. , N. D.-Miller's squatter, right on the sufflcient," as the . Book of Proverbs runs. I am glad to know that the old party is A going back to the true source for knowledge, the sacred scripture, which says, I believe, that the leopard cannot change his spots, though I sup pose this does not preclude the possi bility that the supreme power could change them for him if necessary or such change were best for the earth in general and said leopard .(either the animal mentioned of what is typified by him). & If it: is possible for a black Republi can (or perhaps the white kind) to un derstand such a proposition or problem as this, they can go to it. Perhaps ' it will take some time yet. ... ' , . Roderick Dhu. MCNEIL'S ISLAKD. Portland. June 24. To the Editor of The Journal Please let me know where McNeil's Island la where the ' federal prison is located. J. O. Pierce. - (McNeils island it southwest of Taeoms. is Paget Bound. 1 Curious Bits of Information Gleaned Frgm Curious Places Queen Elizabeth was proud of the first pair of silk stockings ever worn In Eng land, and these were received as a Christmas gift. On Christmas day, 1551, her gift from the archbishop of Canter NEWS IN, BRIEF SIDELIGHTS What a Dltv it Is for the farmers sake that auto cars and - trucks . cannot eat oata Woodburn Independent. . . .. .... . -..v - We shall see In due Course that the "unavoidable war" between the United States and Japan will be unavoidably avoided. weston Leader. , - . e ; . e . ; y - Word comes that war explosives are to be used for farm purposes. This is STOod news. Why not use them to blow prices of farm products up to their proper level t auger Kegtster. , The automobile is a convenience and a pleasure and it has come' to stay. But it is high lime tnat tne laws put a oraice on some of the fools thst own and run machines. jsenton uounty courier.. The Salem school board asked for an increased special tax (or- more frills in the school. The proposal, however, was snowed under by a i to I vote. People are beginning to realize that the way to reduce taxation is to reduce. Eugene uuara. e The ' ' telephone company has been r,vlr, filar n A - In uvaral nanera. large type heralding the query, "How much time do you lose?" It all de oenda On occasions considerable time is lost in waiting on central, for In stance. Asmana 'i lamps. '' One reason why the people of Oreaon turn down any measure increasing the ray of state legislators with such mo notonous regularity, as they did the pro posed statute last week. Is the fact that the legislature makes so. many fool breaks and passes so many absolutely needless laws. Coquille Valley SentlneL Oliver Perry Coshow of Roseburg says Douglas county will have a very fair prune crop. Owing to Its diversified production Douglas county Is ooraina through the period of readjustment in sooa snaps. Take the little matter of broccoli, he Cites. This brourht in orob- ably this season $50,000, Just-at a time when other crops had not come on. . . A noticeable fact, since Portland l as come into prominence as a seaport 1 the arrival of foreign, merchants looking up trade prospect. Formerly they were few and far between. Among late ar rivals are Chong Kwai Chang of Hong tons and Chang Kwai Ming of Hono lulu. . . ... John McNary of Salem spent a few hours in Portland Saturday dodging tho politicians who think that owing to the fact that he is a brother of Oregon's senior United States senator he might have a little inside information. John says . such an idea is erroneous. s e Auto tourists arriving In Portland from California report that the worst road is between Redding and the Ore gon boundary. They are agreeably sur prised to find such good roads in Ore gon. The only drawbacks are the de tours, especially the one Just north of Grants Pass. , . . ..; - LockJey Island to 320 acres. My father, Simeon Morgan Reeder, was . a farmer. My mother's name before she became a Reeder was Catherine AbeL, They had nine children, five of them boys. I did my first work on the river on the old steamer Wonder under Captain Frank Turner, father of Captain C. C. Turner. Captain Frank Turner came on the Co lumbia river run in 1876. He was was-' ter of the Varuna and later had com mand of the Rip Van Winkle. Later he was skipper of the Quickstep till about 1880. From her he went to the Ben Holladay and later was given command of the Westport- Early In 1883 he be came captain of the Wonder. He de signed the towing boat No Wonder, which, in spite of its name, really was a wonder. . She was steered by steam gear, a contrivance that Captain Turner invented and vwhich he patented. - This steering gear was soon in use on many other boats in western waters. "Along about 187J ,1 married Mary Armstrong. We had one son. After my wife's death I married Mary Peck. To us were born seven girls and four boys, so I have an even dozen 'of chil dreh. I advanced - from deckhand tq mate, then to pilot, and finally to mas ter. Once a riverman, always one. I shouldn't be happy away from . the river." ... t -. x-. . e e r Oregonians should become more famil iar with the beauty, the history and the geography of the majestic Columbia In traveling the 1400 miles from its source in the upper Columbia lake to where it flows into the Pacific, It de scends more than 2500 feet, so it can readily be understood, that in its upper reaches It Is as picturesque and full of scenic charm as m the part with which we are more familiar. As the brilliant colors of the clouds at sun set fade to neutral tints of peart and gray, and aa dusk follows twilight, you can almost fancy the shadows under the overhanging bank there are made by the canoes of Charlefoux. or Mo nique, or some other old-time French voyageur. The ripples in the shadow of that wooded island: might well be made by the silent paddles of long gone and unseen. Hudson's Bay oars men as they drive their batteaux be neath the drooping bows of the willows near the shore. e ,.;.' ' - ' Soon we pass Tongue point and come in sight of the City of Destiny, founded more than a centpry ago by John Jacob - Astor. If - you are looking for romance and adventure, Just look up the history of the founding of this oldest Of Oregon cities. If you want to spend a few hours that you will enjoy, both at the : time and in retrospect, take the trip on the liquid highway to the sea. - ...... - bury of 40 in a red silk purse and 4 in a russet silk purse was given by one of the ladies hi the court- These she car ried about for several days, showing them to the courtiers and ladies-in-waiting. A robe made in Venice of lavender embroidered with Venetian gold was given her for a Christmas gift . among ether articles of fine attire. Her ma jesty's fondness for Jewels was realized by the-Earl of Leicester,, who gave her a fan with feathers mounted with gold on one side and two beautiful emeralds surrounded with diamonds and rubies on the other, literally covering the fan with precious stones. Uncl.e Jeff Snow Says The Corners' Cemmeyiity club won't debate the Irish question,, the Egyptian question of the question of who struck Billy Patterson, . 'cause most everbody has a sot opinion or.no opinion whatso ever on them issues. Them as has 'em has 'em strong and no argufyln "cap change 'em a mite, and them as hain't none don't want! to ketch it, seein how It strikes in on t'other. PASS . UP NOTHING i From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ' One swallow does not make a summer, but still no thirsty man is going to pass it up on that account if It Is offered to him. ' ... , The Oregon Country Northwest, Happenings in rttt Form for the .. Busy Res?y- - OREGON NOTES Of the $50,000 required. 142.000 has al ready been subscribed for the new Cor vaills general hospital. - Joseph P. Kinison. one of the first settlers in Powder River valley and who built the first cabin in Baker county, died a few days ago at Long Beach, Cal. Ben II. Williams," graduate of the University of Oregon, son of J. M. Wil liams of Eugene, has accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Penn sylvania.; Dorothy May, 3-year-old daughter of ' Harry Rose of Helix, died in a Pendle- on hospital after being struck down by an automoDiie driven by Clyde Preston, a farmer. . The Hunt Brothers Packing company at Salem announces that it Is in the market for loganberries at 8 cents a pound. Growers expected a 4 or 6 cent price. , Small refining plants will ba placed In operation shortly at the holdings of the Oregon Nitrate -company at fcheep mountain and Stinking lake, 80 miles from Bend. 1 The Medford school aboard has pur chased the Med ford baseball park for use as a public school athletic field and eventually to.be the site of a new high school building. - Because local organisations did not give promise of sufficient financial sup port, the American Legion has dropped its plans for a Fourth of July celebra Uon at Dallaa . Lack of work Is causing many fami lies, recently arrived at Bend In hope of finding employment in road and irri gation work, to apply to charitable or ganisations for aid. - ' As the nucleus of a hoped-for million dollar student loan fund. Dr. Clarence W. Keene of- Silverton, on behalf of the class of '98, has donated 83000 to the University of Oregon. There are 30.548 head of sheep besides about 2000 head of csttle and horses now grazing on the Wenaha national forest, where the grass is said to be better than for many years. Regulations prohibiting ' auto trucks from exceeding a speed of 15 miles an hour, . from using chains on surfaced roads or from going on dirt roads after a rain, have been adopted by Coos county. WASHINGTON - Seattle's municipal railway made a net profit of 839,403.10 during the month of May. Hoouiam has been chosen as the con vention city in 193S of the P. E. O. sisterhood of Washington. ' Because of unsettled market condi tions, two camps of the Simpson Log ging company near Aberdeen have closed for an Indefinite period. The cornerstone of the American Le- frion auditorium "t Olympla was laid ast Thursday. The principal feature was a large parade of ex-service men. During the first 45 days of Its opera tion the Franklin county Snake river bridge collected $2384.35 in bridare tells. Kxpenses during the same period were Because J. L. McPherson, manager of the bureau, was discharged, 18 members of the executive committee of the Alas ka bureau at Seattle tendered their res ignations. . Caught by the throat on the scales hook of an 'Ice wagon at Spokane, Lil lian Jones, aged 8, hung suspended until released by a playmate. Iter recovery Is expected. The county health officer has notified Wapato city authorities that the water in the municipal well of that place is contaminated and. must be purified to be safe for domestic use. Thieves at Walla Walla Friday morn ing stole George Cain's new touring car. valued at $3000, ran it two miles and accidentally set it en fire, then deserted it. The machine is a total loss. . A boy not more than 14 years old assisted a man, apparently hfs father, in holding up two women n the Queen Anne residence district at Seattle. Both the boy and the man were armed. Jerry Cheatham, aged 27, Is under ar rest at Spokane charged with being im plicated In the shipment of a carload of liquor from Canada to Texas. The liquor was seised three weeks ago. ' IDAHO R. L. Curtis, receiver for the federal treasury department, has taken charge ' of the Bannock National bank at Poca tello. A dispatch from Washington states " that Evan Evans of Urangeville has been nominated to be 'collector of inter nal revenue for the district of Idaho. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian ex- ftlorer, now in Pocatello. states that he a planning another expedition to fur ther develop the resources of the Arctio land. . After having tarried 1,000,000 bushels of grain from the upper and lower Snake river, the steamer Lewiston has made its final run of the season and la tied up at the Lewiston dock. The state land commissioner of" Idaho has-Just sold at auction 7180 acres of timber land In 40-acre tracts. The land lies in and around Elk River and brought $10 to $15 an acre. Helen Solbers; was Instantly killed and two other it iris badly hurt when a push car in which they were riding on the Milwaukee railroad ran away down a steep grjuie near Moscow. Articles of Incorporation of the Pio neer Gas and Oil company, capitalized at $1,000,000, have Just been filed at Lewiston. This makes three companies in the Lewiston-Clarkston field that will prospect for oiL The widow of Dr. W. R. Wolcott, who committed suicide at San Diego, Cel., by leaping from a five-story building; has been located at Moscow. Mrs. Wol cott stated that her husband had gone to California to seek a new location. fORTLAND Idaho seems a long way from Portland. As-a matter of fact, it Is Oregon's neighbor and altogether within Portland's trading radius. The development through irrigation In Idaho is a direct contribution to the prosperity of business in Port land. , Idaho, has profited more largely than any other state from the funds 'of the reclamation service. The sales of public lands in Idaho have con tributed about $7,000,000 to the recla maUon fund and Idaho has received about $23,000,000 for reclamation from the national government, Wash ington contributed $7,000,000 and re ceived $15,000,000. Montana con tributed $13,000,000 and received $15. 000,000. Oregon contributed $11,000,000 and received $5,600,000. ' Idaho is credited with having more reclalmable land and more water to dev it with than almost any other western state. The ' Boise-Payette project embraces 200,000 acres; the water supply Is stored by the Arrow reck dam. the highest in the United States. About 1500 families are on the proect. : , About 70.000 acres of the Minidoka project are under a gravity system and about 74.000 acres are under a pumping system. Although in the latter instance the water is lifted three times, the farmers are receiving aniHtally the cost of the project In food crops, ; The King IIIH" prpject In Central Idaho contains about 20,000. acres. It was an abandoned Carey act project which the government took over and in so doing aaved the set tlers about $1,000,000.- The Twin Falls district is regarded as the most successful Carey act project In the United States. Idah-j has many smaller projects, some cf which are developed.